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Afghanistan Vet Finds Love and Sweet Healing in New Nicholas Sparks Novel

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/the-return-nicholas-sparks.jpg Returning home is a popular theme in literature, and Nicholas Sparks explores it in his latest novel aptly named The Return (Grand Central). This one centers on a veteran named Trevor Benson, who is suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome after being wounded by a mortar explosion in Afghanistan. When Trevor’s grandfather…
Ann Lineberger
October 7, 2020
Fiction

“Today We Go Home:” Seeking Hope After the Horrors of War

Larkin Bennett, protagonist of Kelli Estes' novel Today We Go Home (Sourcebooks), was sure she’d never recover from Afghanistan. Not after the explosion. Not after she watched her best friend, Sarah, die right next to her. Not after being discharged from the Army and plunged back into everyday civilian life.…
Emily Wolfe
September 18, 2019